Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science - Softcover

Doel, Marcus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748612432 ISBN 13: 9780748612437

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Poststructuralist Geographies is the first attempt to draw out and develop the inherent quality that is at the heart of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives. With expertise in both critical human geography and post-war continental philosophy, the author is able to bring them together in order to fashion a remarkable and thought-provoking introduction to the fundamental difference that space, place, context and milieu make to how we understand and engage with the world and others around us. Authors such as Baudrillard, Deleuze, Derrida, Irigaray, and Lyotard are given a new twist, and the radical consequences are developed across a range of accessible examples, from film to quantum mechanics.

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About the Author

Marcus Doel is Research Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University. He is also Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, Killing Time (Sage, 2017), Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science (EUP, 1999) and Writing the Rural: Five Cultural Geographies (Paul Chapman, 1994). He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009), Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film (Lanham, 2009), The Consumption Reader (Routledge, 2003), Dynamic Asia: Business, Trade, and Economic Development in Pacific Asia (Avebury, 1998) and Fragmented Asia: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in Pacific Asia (Avebury, 1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748612432
• ISBN 13: 9780748612437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240